The Salon: The Pams Nail Bar & Spa, Salem, N.H.

The Owner: Debra Conolly

What it is:

This tropical cocktail blend of therapeutic oils, sea salts, a mango mud mask, and exotic lotions simulates an island getaway. The atmosphere is heightened by the island music – such as Caribbean steel drums – that plays in the background.

Steps:

• Sanitize the client’s (and your own) hands with coconut-scented hand sanitizing gel.

• Place the client’s hands in a pineapple-shaped bowl that contains warm, tropical-blended oils (coconut, lime, and tangerine.)

• Prep the nails.

• Exfoliate hands and lower arms with a pina colada sugar scrub. Melt the sugar off by rinsing the scrub off in the coconut bowl.

• Wrap a mango mud mask over the client’s arms and hands; then wrap the hands in hot towels that are scented with citrus essential oils.

• Rinse off the mango mask.

• Massage arms and hands using a tropical lotion, such as Essie’s Kiwi Lime or Coconut Pineapple.

• Polish nails.

Products:

• California Mango

• Mudd mask extreme crème,

• Mango Magic cuticle treatment

• Cuticle softener and remover

• Otica Smart Spa Exotic Mango Sugar Scrub

• Essie lotion (Kiwi Lime or Coconut Pineapple)

• Polish, base coat, top coat